The ODC is a graphical application which allows you to search for OPeNDAP datasets, download them to your machine, save them, and import them into client applications like IDL, Matlab, SPSS, Excel, or into databases such as Access and Oracle. It also has viewing and plotting capabilities. Compatible with Unix/Linux, Windows, and Mac.

any generic web browser like Internet Explorer, Mozzilla, or Netscape can access OPeNDAP data in a restricted manner. Since the browsers do not understand the OPeNDAP protocol, the user will need some understanding of the protocol.

any application that can dereference a URL can access a OPeNDAP URL. Since the applications don't understand the protocol, the user will need some understanding of the protocol.

NCL - Scientific data analysis and visualization software

NCL is a scientific data analysis and visualization software package freely available from NCAR (http://www.ncar.ucar.edu). For more information and to download, go to the NCL Home Page (http://www.ncl.ucar.edu).

DChart - A web interface to OPeNDAP in-situ data

The Dapper Data Viewer (aka DChart) allows you to visualize and download in-situ oceanographic or atmospheric data from a Dapper OpenDap server. Features include an interactive map that is draggable, an in-situ station layer that allows you to select data stations, and a plot window that allows you to plot data from one or more stations. Three plot types are supported (profile, property-property, and time series) and users can interact directly with the plot to pan or zoom in and out

Matlab 2012a

Matlab is one of the most compete data analysis tools available. Version 7.15 (aka Matlab 2012a), released on March 1, 2012 contains built-in support for access to OPeNDAP servers. To use this, you use the netCDF API to open remote datasets, inquire about their metadata as well as read and subsample/subset data. See Matlab 2012a Includes Support for OPeNDAPView for more information.

CDAT (Climate Data Analysis Tools)

CDAT (developed at PCMDI) is a software infrastructure that forms an integrated environment for solving model diagnosis problems. CDAT uses Python to seamlessly link together separate software subsystems and packages. CDAT version 3.3 is not distributed as a OPeNDAP client but can be re-linked to the OPeNDAP client libraries. CDAT version 4.0 will be distributed with that step integrated in the CDAT build.

To Download and for more information on CDAT, go to the CDAT web page.

NetCDF client library

The OPeNDAP netCDF client library is a DAP-enabled version of the netCDF API library. netCDF is an interface for array-oriented data access and a library that provides an implementation of the interface developed and maintained by UCAR/Unidata.

GrADS

Generic Web Browser

Because OPeNDAP servers are accessed through URLs, any application that can dereference a URL can access those servers. Thus, any generic web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Mozzilla, or Netscape) can access those data in a restricted manner. Since generic web browsers do not understand the OPeNDAP protocol, the user will need some understanding of the protocol. A brief explaination of how to access OPeNDAP data in a web browser is available at our FAQ 'Using a Web Browser with OPeNDAP servers'.

IDV (Integrated Data Viewer)

IDV is a Java application for visualizing and analyzing geoscience data. The IDV was developed at UCAR/Unidata and uses the VisAD library for data and display models as well as other Java utility packages.

LAS (Live Access Server)

LAS is a highly configurable Web server designed to provide flexible access to geo-referenced scientific data. LAS, by default, uses Ferret (see above) to produce plots of datasets which means the LAS can be configured to display data from OPeNDAP servers.

ncBrowse

ncBrowse is a Java application that provides flexible, interactive graphical displays of data and attributes from a wide range of netCDF data file conventions. Version 1.3.3Beta5 and later can access OPeNDAP servers.

ncdump

ncdump is a utility for displaying netCDF files in the netCDF CDL (Common Data Language). It comes with the netCDF distribution from Unidata. We distribute a version with support for OPeNDAP servers built in.

OPeNDAP Data Connector (ODC)

The ODC is a graphical application which allows you to search for OPeNDAP datasets, download them to your machine, save them, and import them into client applications like IDL, Matlab, SPSS, Excel, or into databases such as Access and Oracle. It also has viewing and plotting capabilities. Compatible with Unix/Linux, Windows, and Mac.

Spreadsheet Applications

Because OPeNDAP servers are accessed through URLs, any application that can dereference a URL can access those data. Since most spreadsheet applications (e.g., MS Excel and StarOffice) can open URLs, they can access those data in a restricted manner. However, since spreadsheet applications do not understand the OPeNDAP protocol, the user will need some understanding of the protocol. A brief explaination of how to access OPeNDAP data from a spreadsheet is available at our FAQ Using a Spreadsheet Application with OPeNDAP servers.